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On Monday 08 February 2010 02:25:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> b) You have a corrupted partition table that you can try to repair |
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> with the "testdisk" tool (after you make a full backup of your |
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> disk.) |
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That seems to have been it. Testdisk did indeed write a new partition |
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table, minus one of the partitions which it insisted on deleting so I |
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suppose something was wrong with it. |
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After much time taking and restoring backups my main system is now |
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running again and i can run fdisk. |
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I'm surprised at this, because a seek error sounds uncomfortably like a |
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hardware problem to me. Maybe some particular error in the partition |
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table confused fdisk and cfdisk. |
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Anyway, thanks for the help, Nikos and all those who offered it. |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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